RIPON - A student riding a Ripon Unified school bus is going to be paying about 50 cents more per day for a total of $1.14. That is in contrast with other cities like Tracy where students are charged $2 per day to ride to and from school.

RIPON - The only shredding event that asked for donations in the region over the past weekend drew over $4,000 from 110 vehicles that also dropped off their e-waste as behind a medical practice in Ripon Saturday morning.

Should the turn-of-the21st-century neighborhoods southeast of the Airport Way and Highway 120 Bypass interchange where homes once sold for as much as $680,000 just five years ago be targeted for redevelopment due to a high rate of foreclosures?

FRENCH CAMP – When Wayne Knauf visited French Camp School recently, he was appalled to see the historic marker at the entrance to the campus moved unceremoniously several feet away, wrapped up with cables and chains and then tied to a tree.

More than 3,400 homes, offices, and commercial establishments around Manteca High School were left in the dark Friday evening when strong winds caused a power pole to snap like a giant pencil, sending dangerous live wires scattered on the ground and dangling precariously overhead.

When teachers retire, they say goodbye to their students and to the years-long everyday grind in the classroom, but not to close friends. At least, that holds true to a group of retired teachers and staff from George McParland Elementary School. Once a month, these former coworkers take time out to catch up on post-retirement stories and simply renew close friendships over a scrumptious luncheon.